1 subway

2 metro

1 subway station

1 to abolish

2 to abandon

3 to abrogate

4 to discard

5 to depose

6 to oust

7 crippled

8 abandoned

9 waste

1 nonsense

2 rubbish

3 superfluous words

4 You don't say!

5 No kidding! (gently sarcastic)

1 surname Tie

1 not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers

1 one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom)

2 an empty sack cannot stand upright

1 to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case

1 to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished

1 If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.

2 cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task

3 to study diligently